Environment: 2 user and mysql database Two users are using digiKam. User1 constantly changes the captions of the images. User2 checks the changes on a remote computer. User2 use F5 button the to update the contents of the album. I attached a small video. Can be seen in the video after press F5 button: The caption created by User1 was given to the images, but the subtitle does not appear during the thumbnails. Ok. Click an another Album, then original album again. Now: the captions is visible during all images except for the earlier selected image. https://mega.nz/folder/NVgRWSxB#gv52lfA1gs1deqrp8bV00A
Well, that's not what the F5 function was designed for either. It searches for new images and creates new thumbnails. There is no function to re-read data from the database. digiKam is currently not multi-user capable (not at the same time). We do not know whether the data in the DB has been changed by another program. We have bug reports (wishes) for this. digiKam only monitors within its own instance whether it changes the DB and updates the caches for the items. Maik
See this story Bug 146865. Maik
You have already found the only way to update, change the album briefly. Maik
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #1) > Well, that's not what the F5 function was designed for either. It searches > for new images and creates new thumbnails. There is no function to re-read > data from the database. digiKam is currently not multi-user capable (not at > the same time). We do not know whether the data in the DB has been changed > by another program. We have bug reports (wishes) for this. digiKam only > monitors within its own instance whether it changes the DB and updates the > caches for the items. > > Maik Thanks for answer Maik. I knew about the multi-user environment issue... ...User2 does not modify, only reads the database. After F5 pressed digikam will make the necessary modifications on the data of images, only the captions don't appear under the thumbnails, but captions panel contains the necessary information. So the function works, only the data under the thumbnails is not displayed (respectively not in all cases).
Just a small note: Settings -- Collections "Monitor the albums for external changes" function is deliberately not activated for me, because there is no need for constant monitoring. For me the F5 is a appropriate function (even if it wasn't designed for that).
peter, With 8.0.0, this file still valid, aka comment is now updated in icon-view tool-tips ? Gilles Caulier
Gilles, Tested on 8.1 version; appimage In fact, it got worse. Exiting the album no longer updates any of the captions below the thumbnails (so far this has worked).
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